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clean-news.js
const stopWords = ['corona', 'pandemie', 'trump', 'biden'];
const cleanArticles = () => {
const articles = document.querySelectorAll('article');
const toRemove = new Set();
articles.forEach(a => {
stopWords.map(word => {
if (a.textContent.toLowerCase().includes(word)) {
toRemove.add(a);
}
});
});
toRemove.forEach(a => a.style.opacity = .1); // make them less opaque
//toRemove.forEach(a => a.remove); // remove them
console.log(`cleaned ${toRemove.size()} articles`);
};
cleanArticles();
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